ISLAMABAD- Pakistan has agreed to enact Freedom of Information Act for obtaining loan of US $130 million from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), under which record of all financial deals (procurement, loan etc) of the government would be open to public scrutiny. Official sources said that enactment of Freedom of Information Act, and Broadcasting Media […]
PESHAWAR- City’s journalist community, which had a club in the premises of the Peshawar Museum here for over 25 years, moved to a new building. NWFP Governor Lt Gen Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah was the chief guest on the occasion but he did not attend the ceremony to inaugurate the new Peshawar Press Club building […]
KARACHI- The Chairman of Election Committee of the Karachi University Journalism Alumni (KUJAA), Professor Zakaria Sajid has announced that Muhammad Sami Goher and Yousuf Khan were elected unopposed as President and Secretary General of the KUJAA for next two years respectively. Elected unopposed in the election at press club, were Tabinda Lari and Anwar Jabeen […]
KARACHI- The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors has strongly deplored the action of the Deputy Commissioner (DC), Islamabad, canceling the declaration of the daily Pakistan, Islamabad, and called for the revocation of the order. The CPNE Standing Committee adopted a resolution to deplore the action and maintained that the Deputy Commissioner had misused the authority […]
KARACHI- The APNS executive committee has adopted the package drafts of the constitutional and advertising reforms prepared by its secretariat, stated a press release of the APNS. Mohammad Aslam Kazi, acting Secretary-General of the APNS has announced the decisions of the executive committee held at Karachi under the chairmanship of its president, Hameed Haroon. The […]
HYDERABAD- Chairman, Raja Afrasiab Khan (Rtd), has said that the he will look after the interest of newspapers as well as newspaper employees. This he said during the 11th, meeting of the seventh wage board for the newspaper employees at Circuit House. The chairman said that he knew the problems and difficulties facing newspaper employees. […]
ABBOTTABAD- Four journalists, charged under blasphemy law, were granted bail by the district and sessions judge, Abbottabad. Senior lawyer Syed Shabbir Hussain Shah had filed the bail application on behalf of the journalists in the court of district and sessions judge, Musadaq Hussain Gillani on July 11. The four newsmen were released from District Jail, […]
ABBOTTABAD- Annual elections of the Haripur Union of Journalists (HUJ), and Press Club Haripur were completed, while Khanzada Amjad Khan was unanimously elected President for 6th consecutive time for the year 2000 and 2001, which is correspondent of the daily Jang, Rawalpindi. Waseem Azhar Turabi (Ausaf), General Secretary, Haripur Press Club, Mahmood-ur-Rehman (Maidan), Coordination Secretary, […]
KARACHI- The Chairman of the Seventh Wage Board, Mr, Justice (Retd) Raja Afrasiab Khan, said that he would announce the final award within the stipulated time irrespective of boycott of newspaper owners. He was responding to the appeal of newspaper employees who appeared as witnesses before the Seventh Wage Board Chairman on the second day […]
ISLAMABAD- People are showing keen interest in the historic visit of President and Chief Executive General Pervez Musharraf to New Delhi that is being viewed by international observers as the first significant step towards durable peace in the 54 years strained ties between the two nuclear neighbours of South Asia. After the departure of President […]
HANGU- Doaba police arrested local reporter of daily Mashriq, Peshawar. The police arrested Hasan Mahmood Orakzai, under Section 40 of the Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR), a naked sword in the hands of political agents running the tribal agencies’ affairs. Qudratullah Chaudhary, editor of daily Mashriq, has confirmed the arrest of the reporter in Hangu. “The […]
KARACHI- The Chairman of the Seventh Wage Board for Newspapers Employees, Justice Raja Afrasiab Khan, has called its 11th meeting in Karachi on July 16 at 11 am in Qasr-i-Naz. The meetings in Hyderabad would be held on July 19 and 20 in the Circuit House. The agenda of the meeting is to discuss the […]
ISLAMABAD- The chairman of the Seventh Wage Board Award for Newspapers Employees, Justice Raja Afrasiab Khan, said all newspaper organizations were bound to pay an interim relief announced by him on December 18,2000. He passed this order during proceedings of the Wage Award Committee, held at the committee room of the Labor Ministry. The proceedings […]
ISLAMABAD- All Pakistan Newspaper Employees Confederation (Apnec), and Pakistan Federal Union of, Journalists (PFUJ), demanded implementation of interim relief awarded by the chairman of the Seventh Wage Board, Raja Afrasiab Khan, to all newspapers’ and news agencies employees throughout the country. The demand was raised at a protest meeting held in front of the Press […]
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